"Zhuge Liang Sanqi Zhou Yu" is a classic passage in the classic works, vividly showing the resourcefulness of the former and the narrow-mindedness of the latter.
Let's first take a look at how Mr. Kong Ming deliberately bullied Mr. Gongjin in Luo Guanzhong's works:
Zhou Yu: Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang agreed that if Zhou Yu failed to capture the Southern Army held by Cao Ren, Liu Bei would attack again. Zhou Yu lost and was injured the first time he caught it, so he made a plan to defeat Cao Bing. However, Zhuge Liang seized the opportunity to seize the Southern Army and other places. He neither violated the contract nor occupied territory. Kill two birds with one stone!
After The death of Liu Bei's wife, Sun Quan pretended to give his sister Sun Renxu to Liu Bei according to Zhou Yu's plan, in an attempt to deceive Liu Bei into Suzhou and kill him. Unexpectedly, Wu Guotai (Sun Quan's mother) took a fancy to Liu Bei. Not only did she not let Sun Quan kill him, but she really wanted to give her daughter Xu to him. Zhou Yu hoped that Liu Bei would be separated from Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei for a long time, and used sound and color to confuse Liu Bei, causing him to lose his ambition to compete for the world, but he failed again. Zhuge Liang demanded that Liu Bei return safely to Jingzhou, and Zhou Yu was ambushed. He also asked the soldiers to laugh at Zhou Yu by singing "Zhou Lang's clever plan to defend the world, lose his wife, and lose his soldiers", which made Zhou Yu vomit blood in anger.
Liu Bei borrowed the nine counties of Eastern Wujing Township to develop and expand himself. However, Eastern Wu was afraid of the pension tiger, which made Liu Bei a threat to himself after becoming powerful. They repeatedly demanded that he return to Jingzhou. Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang refused Eastern Wu's request on the grounds that they would return to Jingzhou after capturing Xichuan, but they delayed the capture of Xichuan. This made Zhou Yu very angry, so he came up with the idea of "Jingzhou Corridor" to help Liu Bei capture Xichuan. In fact, when he captured Jingzhou, he did not want to be recognized by Zhuge Liang, which led to the siege of wu troops. Zhou Yu's impatience and his old wounds recurred. Finally, he died with a long sigh, "He Shengliang, born with Yu."
After reading the story of "Zhuge Liang's Three Qi Zhou Yu", people who like Zhuge Liang do not have to applaud Zhuge Liang, and people who like Zhou Yu do not have to be sad for Zhou Yu, because "the above is pure fiction."
In the history of the Three Kingdoms, the Battle of the Confederate Army was a very important battle. If you want to get ranked, it should be ranked sixth after the Battle of Chibi, the Battle of Guandu, the Battle of Yiling, the Battle of Wu, and the Battle of Shu, because it was this battle that ultimately determined Cao Cao, Sun Quan, and Liu Bei's sphere of influence in Jingzhou. Unlike the Romance, the battle of the Southern Army was mainly manifested not by Zhuge Liang's wisdom, but by Zhou Yu's literary and military strategy.
Why do you say that?
Before the Battle of the Southern Army, although the specific strength of Cao Cao's faction in Jingzhou was still unclear, judging from the participation of the Sixth Route Army led by Cao Ren, Le Jin, Xu Huang, Wen Bin, Li Tong, and Man Chong, the total strength of Cao Cao's army should not be less than 60,000 people, Zhou Yu's strength was only more than 20,000 people, and Liu Bei's strength was less than 20,000 people. Judging from the comparison of the strength of the two sides at that time, Zhou Yu's capture of the Southern Army within a year was indeed a great military achievement.
From another point of view, after the Battle of Chibi, Liu Bei and Sun Quan took the opportunity to launch a group of counter-offensive troops, most of which were defeated by Cao Cao. For example, Sun Quan was defeated in Hefei and Milk trees, Han Dang went to Lujiang County to meet Chen Lan and Meicheng, and was defeated by Zang Ba, Guan Yu's "Hanshui rangers" were defeated by Cao Jun, and Liu Bei's so-called "broken queen" military operations were actually unsuccessful, so it can be said that after the Battle of Chibi, in the many counterattacks of Sun Yat-sen and Liu Bei against Cao Cao, Zhou Yu was the only victor.
In fact, in the historical period of Zhuge Liang's "Three Qi Zhou Yu", the two never met. As the legend goes, Zhou Yu did operate around Nan County and Chaisang (both in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River), but Zhuge Liang "adjusted taxes to serve as a soldier" and carried out logistical support work in the remote guiyang and lingling counties (both in present-day southern Hunan).
